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I've not been around this last week much/at all and I feel that you all want to hear what I've been up to. No? Well I shall inform you anyway.

I've been working for Student Direct, which is a student newspaper based at the University of Manchester, and is the biggest circulating student newspaper in Europe - with approx. 200,000 printed, and snapped up, every week.

This was a work experience due to the fact there are a dwindling number of places availible on Journalism courses at universities and I need a relevent work experience to get a certain place on a course, and also because I wanted to experience a working newspaper environment; and HELL did I like it.

I don't know if anyone here is 'happily' employed, but I just felt at home in the newsroom, it's a rather cheesy prospect I do realise, but it's something that makes me all the more comfortable to spent three years and a shedload of money on a course that I now know I DO want to get into.

My week has entailed gathering stories, writing them up, proof reading, sub-editing and a surprising lack of tea-making! I also feel my vocabulary has been cavernously widened and my analytical skills of people's language are all the more pedantic. The story I worked on wit ha girl called Rachel, which is about the government's gambling bill and the new casinos that are to open up in Manchester was made the chief story of the newspaper, which I was quietly impressed about.

If anyone's university dishes out Student Direct then pick it up and have a read, I'd be ever-so grateful. In addition to that I've also been offered a regular writing job for the paper, doing opinion pages on various issues, which would suit me down to the ground.

I've also been out like EVERY night this week and have a blister, A BLISTER, on the bottom of my foot, partly from commuting and party from my sweaty shoes.

Oh and "Down with Bush" and all that lefty stuff I'd have said if I was posting during the American Election.

Nice one. :-)

So pleased to hear you really upbeat about this. Good for you.

Glad to hear you're putting your love of words to good use.

Just think how depressed you were before. See it call all change so quickly!

Whitestripes X wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
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> We also have thistles, trees and midges.
>
> And cholesterol.

Aye.

Whitestripes X wrote:

> LOL!!! U CANT S{PEL!!
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>
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> Anyway, good for you and stuff. I've been forever nervous about
> having jobs I hated, but recently I've realised that I really do love
> biology so as long as I get into medicine I think I'll be really
> happy.

I knew I'd make a typo.

I've been sub editing for 8 hours today and my eyes tired are very.

cookie monster wrote:

> We also have thistles, trees and midges.

And cholesterol.

Pff, stfu g4yZ0r!

I am teh 1337 haxor

sif, n00b

mattributé wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> loch.
>
> Is that all you have in Scotland?

We also have thistles, trees and midges.

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